Girma Wolde-Giorgis

Girma Wolde-Giorgis (28 December 1924-15 December 2018) was President of Ethiopia from 8 October 2001 to 7 October 2013, succeeding Negasso Gidada and preceding Mulatu Teshome.

Biography
Girma Wolde-Giorgis was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1924, and he worked in the airline industry before becoming a prominent social activist, criticizing the apartheid system in South Africa. In 2001, the widely unknown Wolde-Gorgis was unanimously elected President by the Ethiopian Parliament; as the Presidency was largely a symbolic office with little power, his presidency was not notable. He died in 2018.